Boyfriend Arrested In 2 Stabbings

Police: Suspect Wounds Men, Threatens Woman

FORT LAUDERDALE - — After a four-hour search, police arrested a man who attacked and stabbed two other men, one critically, in a fruitless search for his girlfriend Friday morning, police said.

David Kennedy, 40, of Fort Lauderdale, wanted to find his girlfriend so he could kill her, police said.

One victim managed to fight off his attacker, then fled the house, screaming and naked, causing neighbors to call police just after 5:30 a.m., Detective Sonya Friedman said. The attack occurred in the 1100 block of Northwest Ninth Avenue. Police said that although Kennedy escaped after stabbing both men, they found and arrested him about noon in the 600 block of Southwest 14th Avenue. He was charged with two counts of aggravated battery. According to police, this is what happened: Kennedy approached the house looking for his girlfriend. He thought she might be there because her former boyfriend, Junior Albert Eastwood, 46, lives there.

He confronted Eastwood's housemate, Neil Alphonso Palmer, 43, a cabdriver who was about to get into his car to go to work. Palmer collapsed on the ground beneath the carport after being stabbed once in the chest. He was listed in critical condition Friday night at Broward General Medical Center.

Kennedy then went into the house, kicked open a locked bedroom door to where Eastwood was sleeping and charged at Eastwood with a 10-inch butcher knife, demanding to know where his girlfriend was because he wanted to kill her. After suffering wounds on his hands and upper arms, the naked Eastwood managed to flee down the street, chased briefly by his attacker.

Kennedy then fled.

Eastwood was listed in fair condition at Broward General.

Police would not say where the girlfriend was when the stabbing occurred. Police are not releasing her name.